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ON A GIGANTIC CHALCID FLY INHABITING FLORIDA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

WM. H. Ashmead
WM. H. Ashmead
Affiliation:
Jacksonville, Florida
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In the spring of 1880, while collecting Coleoptera, I secured a ♀ of a large species of Chalcid belonging to the genus Smicra, which is apparently unknown to the scientific world.

The specimen was captured on an oak shrub, in close proximity to an empty polyphemus cocoon. Could it have hatched from it ? This is not improbable, as Prof. C. V. Riley's Smicra mariœ was bred from this moth, and other species of the genus are known to be parasitic upon the larvæ of our larger moths.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , May 1881 , pp. 89 - 90
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1881

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